Need help with women whose normal tone of voice is to whisper

There is one newsreader in the UK , possibly Sky news and he starts off ok, then drops his voice at the end of a sentence- quite often at the crucial bit and then gets louder as he starts the next sentence and carries on like this the whole time. It drives us bonkers, even my husband who has no hearing issues (apart from selective hearing.

@whitewater said:

You talk about excluding her from the family if things don’t approve. I’m not sure what you mean, but be careful not to take it out on her OR alienate your own family by trying to do this

I wonder if the other way around happened with someone with hearing impairment. They were excluded from a gathering or even worse, they lost a friend or a partner because of hearing loss?

Someone needs to explain your situation. Or perhaps she’s a little shy. Personally I get annoyed when people know I struggle with hearing yet insist on speaking quiet.

Yes there’s a male newsreader on BBC radio who drops the ends of sentences into a croak. It’s called vocal fry, and among American women in particular it seems to be a fashion. I work in narration, and as an English male have even been encouraged to add fry!

The croak is made even more hard to interpret when conveyed by digital technology: the data-reducing algorithms involved were, in my view, not designed to accommodate this growing element of speech - and garble it even more. You can even hear a subtle difference if you compare DAB radio (obsolete MP2 processed) with the older, sweeter FM. Fry becomes gross via phones and some web audio.
And as for hearing aids… There’s still a clamour, mostly among musicians, for analogue hearing assistance. Less clever, but less grunge!